The original post: /r/homelab by /u/I-Code-Things on 2024-09-17 18:51:08.
There’s so much NAS info floating around and it goes from basic to expert with no in-between. Can someone help me understand these points?
- Why do people recommend Synology over QNAP, then others say Synology sucks and to use something else that has unraid, truenas, etc?
- When would you use 3.5" HDD vs 2.5" SDD vs M.2 NVME? e.g. a typical HDD nas vs the Asustor Flashstor 2 (all NVME) vs the UGreen NASync (mix of NVME and HDDs)
- What is ECC and why is it important? Also, is it worth not going to DDR5 because for some reason it can’t fully use ECC?
- Someone said for hardware transcoding, any intel cpu going to beat most GPUs until you spend > $2500k. Is that right?
- At what point do you just use the NAS for storage, then have a different server for your services like Jellyfin, sonar, etc.
It does seem like most spec and speed conversations are for people using a NAS as more enterprise equipment where large file transfers is the critical aspect and things like not having an SFP+ port are deal breakers. If a solid media server is really the important piece, what factors should be the most important?
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